As soon as he got out of the morning court, he saw a little eunuch trotting over.

When Wang Huaien saw it, he immediately frowned, and was about to scold, so he heard the little eunuch say in a loud voice: "Your Majesty, two people came outside, holding documents, saying that they are from Yunzhou County, asking to see Your Majesty!" ”

As he spoke, the little eunuch held the paperwork in his hand and raised it above his head.

Seeing this, Zhao Jun raised his eyebrows, glanced at Wang Huaien next to him, and immediately took the document and opened it.

After quickly reading the contents of the document, Zhao Jun confirmed who the person was and immediately instructed Wang Huaien:

"Wang Companion, bring Gu Zhong to Funing Palace to see me, and you can bring some people to count and hand over the silver taels."

"No!"

Wang Huaien was about to retreat when he heard this, but suddenly remembered something and asked, "Your Majesty, are you counting at the city gate?" ”

Zhao Jun nodded: "That's right, count in front of the people of the entire Bianjing City." ”

"Will this ......?"

Wang Huaien was very hesitant, so much silver was counted in front of everyone, would this cause unnecessary trouble.

However, Zhao Jun smiled slightly and said: "Just count in front of the people, there is someone to escort it, and there will be no problem." ”

"No! The slave gets it! ”

Since His Majesty said so, Wang Huaien didn't want to say anything more, nodded and went to prepare manpower, and arranged for someone to take Gu Zhong into the palace.

About half an hour later, in the Funing Palace.

Gu Zhong was brought in front of Zhao Jun.

"The chief secretary of the financial department, Gu Zhong, see Your Majesty, Your Majesty?

Today, I was ordered to escort 20 million taels of silver into Beijing, and I have arrived outside the city! ”

"I'm there! Aiqing sit down, come on, bring a chair to Gu Qing! ”

Zhao Jun smiled and nodded, and then ordered someone to bring a chair to Gu Zhong.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

After Gu Zhong thanked him, he did only half of his buttocks, and Zhao Jun said at this time: "Master Gu, right?" ”

Gu Zhong immediately arched his hand and said, "Your Majesty, it is the minister!" ”

"Okay, the escorted silver two I have already competed Wang Huaien took people to count, if the inventory is accurate, your trip will be completed, and you can also make a heavy mark on the year-end assessment after you go back!" Zhao Jun said with a smile.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Gu Zhong hurriedly got up and gave up his hand, but Zhao Jun waved his hand to signal him to sit down, and then continued: "Along the way, you must have also seen the situation in the pass.

Now that the Guannai is in ruins, and the imperial court itself is short of money and food, the imperial court alone cannot support it at all, so I have merged the finance and taxation of Yunzhou County into the national treasury.

However, the news that I sent back is also very clear, and every year the finance and taxes of Yunzhou County must be approved by me, and then the share to be paid will be set before the fixed amount will be transported to Bianjing.

I also know that you are worried that I have hollowed out Yunzhou County to subsidize Guannai, so you can rest assured about this.

Yunzhou County has the advantage of Yunzhou County, and in the future, I will definitely move some industries into the Guannei, and they can only develop the best in the Guannai.

But the other part is to stay in Yunzhou County to develop well, such as heavy industry, iron industry, etc., Yunzhou County has a unique advantage, will stay in Yunzhou County.

Moreover, Yunzhou County will not endlessly help Guannei, and when the people's livelihood in Guannai is restored, Yunzhou County will still focus on its own development.

Of course, as the so-called first rich drive the later rich, Yunzhou County is now the big brother of the rich, and it is inevitable that it will definitely drive other places at that time, and you must be psychologically prepared in this regard, and your financial secretary must plan in advance.

You have to pass these words back to your superiors, understand? ”

Gu Zhong immediately nodded: "The minister understands!" ”

Seeing that he understood that Zhao Jun also nodded with satisfaction, he then continued: "I heard that the people from the household department are waiting for you at the city gate early in the morning, right?" ”

Gu Zhong hesitated for a moment and then simply nodded and replied: "As soon as our convoy arrived at the city gate this morning, Cui Shangshu of the household department took a group of household officials to the city gate and stopped the ministers.

The head of the household wanted to directly ask the minister to send the silver to the household department, but the minister did not agree, and went straight to the palace after telling him. ”

"This dead old man, he is positive about money."

Zhao Jun scolded with a smile, and then said:

"You did the right thing, since it was sent from Yunzhou County, it is natural that I can only hand it over to the household department after it has been inspected, and it cannot be directly handed over to them, there are many dishonest people among those people in the household department, after all, they are in charge of the country's finances.

If it's unclear and unclear, it's too late for you to cry if something goes wrong. ”

Zhao Jun knows very well that although it has been cleaned up several times, there is still no guarantee that everyone in the court is a clean official.

There hasn't been much trouble in the household department before, and that's because the old Shangshu Cui Wen is tightly managed.

The second is that because the household department did not have much money at that time, the treasury was about to be able to run mice, so naturally there was no greed.

But this time, 20 million taels of silver came into storage, and Zhao Jun didn't dare to guarantee that no one would be tempted by such a large number.

If the handover procedures are not perfect, people will find loopholes.

Those guys aren't going to be relentless.

"The stakes are very high, and the minister knows it."

Gu Zhong naturally had doubts about this, so he followed the rules.

Zhao Jun nodded with satisfaction again, this is a person who can do things, and then inspect and investigate, if there is no problem, he is a candidate who can be transferred to Bianjing.

Gu Zhong didn't know that His Majesty was already preparing to tie him up from Yunzhou County.

"Okay, in that case, then you can tell me about the current situation in Yunzhou County, I will have dinner here at noon today, and you don't have to worry about the convoy, I will arrange for someone to send it."

"That minister, thank you, Your Majesty!"

Fei thought that he could be personally received by the prince at that time, and now His Majesty would personally receive him and dine together, Gu Zhong was obviously excited.

Since His Majesty wants to hear about the changes in Yunzhou County now, then he will speak.

Immediately, the two of them spoke and listened to each other.

Time passes.

City gates.

Wang Huaien brought more than 200 eunuchs, and went to the secret guard and the imperial city division to borrow some people, and a total of 2,000 people came to the city gate.

As soon as I arrived here, I saw the convoy that was being watched and Cui Shangshu who was being stopped outside by the convoy guards and blew his beard and stared at Cui Wen.

Wang Huaien smiled, knowing that his emperor still had a good impression of this loyal old Shangshu, so he also greeted him with a smile on his face.

"Oops! Isn't this Cui Shangshu? You see that this child is not on duty in the household department, why did he come here? ”

Cui Wen, who was blowing his beard and glaring at the leading general of the defending army, immediately turned his head to look at it when he heard this voice, and saw that it was indeed Wang Huaien, and immediately showed a chrysanthemum-like smile on his old face.

Immediately, he greeted him and said with a smile: "Princess! You came just in time, let these soldiers let their officials in, this silver was supposed to be sent to my household, and I don't want to let me, the recipient, go and see, where is there such a reason! ”

Wang Huaien smiled when he heard this, did not answer him, first walked in front of the leading general and showed the waist card in his hand, and when the general saw the waist card, his face suddenly became solemn, and he bowed his hand respectfully and retreated.

Cui Wen was overjoyed when he saw it, and was about to go inside, when suddenly a spy from the dark department stretched out his hand to stop him.

Facing Cui Wen's puzzled eyes, Wang Huaien smiled and said, "The stakes are very high, Cui Shangshu should wait for us to count before entering."

You are also a financial officer, since you should know how big a problem will be if the account handover is not clear, please forgive me! Excuse me! ”

With that, Wang Huaien arched his hand, turned around and walked in.

Behind him, a group of people and others also followed one after another.

Then more than a dozen strong men with big shoulders and round waists replaced the guards just now and blocked in front of these officials of the household department.

Acting like this, Cui Wen was dumbfounded and opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say.

He naturally knew what could go wrong if the accounts were not handed over clearly.

That is, someone will take advantage of the loophole to enrich themselves, and they can also throw the responsibility on the previous handover party.

But this move is clearly not trusting their household!

However, after looking back at the dozen or so people behind him with equally angry expressions, but occasionally some of them looked disappointed, he suddenly understood why His Majesty did not trust the officials of the household department.

There are still bad people in the household!

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(End of chapter)